You are here: Homepage Countries China Themen All Themes From To filter Photo: Ziyi Le How we live now | China China’s youth opts out Working long hours and being part of the rat race are part of everyday life in China. But lots of young people are opting out - and talking about it on social media. Photographer Ziyi Le takes portraits of a disillusioned generation By Tami Xiang, Darren Jorgensen, Ziyi Le 01/25/2024 Xiang Peng, seven years old, is in first class. His parents work in Guangzhou, a journey of 24 hours and 16 minutes by train from their hometown of Wanzhou. In the last six years, they have seen each other six times, each time for five to seven days during Chinese New Year. Photo: Tami Xiang Family | China “Millions of children live apart from their parents” Chinese migrant workers are often denied official residency. Many parents leave their children behind in the villages. Photographer Tami Xiang visited some of them. A conversation Interview with Tami Xiang 11/25/2023 Maasai on the edge of the Nigorongoro Crater in Tanzania, a World Heritage Site since 1979. The government wants to promote tourism, the Maasai are to be resettled Photo: Getty Images UNESCO | World heritage World heritage or wheat? UNESCO's World Heritage Convention turns 50 this year. There's plenty of cause for celebration but also for concern amid loud calls for reform. By Monika Hoegen 07/01/2022 The author Gulbahar Haitiwaji, born in 1966 in Xinjiang, northern China, is an engineer. In 2017 she was arrested in China Photo: Emmanuelle Marchadour Photo: Emmanuelle Marchadour Human rights | China “Not giving up the fight” Gulbahar Haitiwaji is the first Uighur woman to have published a book about her time in a Chinese “re-education camp”. She talks about life after publication Interview with Gulbahar Haitiwaji 04/14/2022 Chefs Zhao Ansheng and her husband Niu Song during lunch break in their basement room near the northern Third Ring Road in Beijing. Photo: Sim Chi Yin Life underground | China “I asked, Where do you live?” In Beijing, some people on low incomes dwell in basements beneath the city. Photographer Sim Chi Yin depicted them in her photo series “The Rat Tribe”. A conversation Interview with Sim Chi Yin 01/07/2022 At a dig site in Zhucheng, palaeontologists managed to reassemble the bones of several tyrannosaurs Photo: Xinhua / Eyevine / laif Under the ground | China Welcome to Cretaceous Park There have been more dinosaur bones excavated in Zhucheng, China, than at almost any other location in the world. But it all started with a search for something completely different By Li Dawei 01/07/2022 For centuries in China rafts are built from bamboo canes Photo: Kike Arnaiz / Imago Make it yourself! A raft made from bamboo How a traditional Chinese technique of building boats has won over tourists from around the globe. By Li* 10/01/2021 Illustration: Kulturaustausch Online protest | South East Asia The great tea revolution Under the hashtag #MilkTeaAlliance, more and more people in Southeast Asia are rising up against autocracy and censorship. What’s behind the online movement? By Brian Hioe 04/01/2021 Illustration: Cristiana Couceiro International relations | USA Can the US reach out to Asia? Under Donald Trump, the US turned its back on its Asian allies and openly challenged Peking. Now it is up to Joe Biden to pick up the pieces By Shihoko Goto 04/01/2021
Photo: Ziyi Le How we live now | China China’s youth opts out Working long hours and being part of the rat race are part of everyday life in China. But lots of young people are opting out - and talking about it on social media. Photographer Ziyi Le takes portraits of a disillusioned generation By Tami Xiang, Darren Jorgensen, Ziyi Le 01/25/2024
Xiang Peng, seven years old, is in first class. His parents work in Guangzhou, a journey of 24 hours and 16 minutes by train from their hometown of Wanzhou. In the last six years, they have seen each other six times, each time for five to seven days during Chinese New Year. Photo: Tami Xiang Family | China “Millions of children live apart from their parents” Chinese migrant workers are often denied official residency. Many parents leave their children behind in the villages. Photographer Tami Xiang visited some of them. A conversation Interview with Tami Xiang 11/25/2023
Maasai on the edge of the Nigorongoro Crater in Tanzania, a World Heritage Site since 1979. The government wants to promote tourism, the Maasai are to be resettled Photo: Getty Images UNESCO | World heritage World heritage or wheat? UNESCO's World Heritage Convention turns 50 this year. There's plenty of cause for celebration but also for concern amid loud calls for reform. By Monika Hoegen 07/01/2022
The author Gulbahar Haitiwaji, born in 1966 in Xinjiang, northern China, is an engineer. In 2017 she was arrested in China Photo: Emmanuelle Marchadour Photo: Emmanuelle Marchadour Human rights | China “Not giving up the fight” Gulbahar Haitiwaji is the first Uighur woman to have published a book about her time in a Chinese “re-education camp”. She talks about life after publication Interview with Gulbahar Haitiwaji 04/14/2022
Chefs Zhao Ansheng and her husband Niu Song during lunch break in their basement room near the northern Third Ring Road in Beijing. Photo: Sim Chi Yin Life underground | China “I asked, Where do you live?” In Beijing, some people on low incomes dwell in basements beneath the city. Photographer Sim Chi Yin depicted them in her photo series “The Rat Tribe”. A conversation Interview with Sim Chi Yin 01/07/2022
At a dig site in Zhucheng, palaeontologists managed to reassemble the bones of several tyrannosaurs Photo: Xinhua / Eyevine / laif Under the ground | China Welcome to Cretaceous Park There have been more dinosaur bones excavated in Zhucheng, China, than at almost any other location in the world. But it all started with a search for something completely different By Li Dawei 01/07/2022
For centuries in China rafts are built from bamboo canes Photo: Kike Arnaiz / Imago Make it yourself! A raft made from bamboo How a traditional Chinese technique of building boats has won over tourists from around the globe. By Li* 10/01/2021
Illustration: Kulturaustausch Online protest | South East Asia The great tea revolution Under the hashtag #MilkTeaAlliance, more and more people in Southeast Asia are rising up against autocracy and censorship. What’s behind the online movement? By Brian Hioe 04/01/2021
Illustration: Cristiana Couceiro International relations | USA Can the US reach out to Asia? Under Donald Trump, the US turned its back on its Asian allies and openly challenged Peking. Now it is up to Joe Biden to pick up the pieces By Shihoko Goto 04/01/2021
